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: Received: 30 March 2020 / Approved: 7 April 2020 / Online: 7 April 2020 (09:43:22 CEST)
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Mustafa, M.; Makhawi, A. SHERLOCK and DETECTR: CRISPR-Cas Systems as Potential Rapid Diagnostic Tools for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Cancer-Associated Mutations. Preprints2020, 2020040080. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0080.v1
Mustafa, M.; Makhawi, A. SHERLOCK and DETECTR: CRISPR-Cas Systems as Potential Rapid Diagnostic Tools for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Cancer-Associated Mutations. Preprints 2020, 2020040080. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0080.v1
Mustafa, M.; Makhawi, A. SHERLOCK and DETECTR: CRISPR-Cas Systems as Potential Rapid Diagnostic Tools for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Cancer-Associated Mutations. Preprints2020, 2020040080. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0080.v1
APA Style
Mustafa, M., & Makhawi, A. (2020). <strong>SHERLOCK and DETECTR: CRISPR-Cas Systems as Potential Rapid Diagnostic Tools for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Cancer-Associated Mutations</strong>. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0080.v1
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Mustafa, M. and Abdelrafie Makhawi. 2020 "<strong>SHERLOCK and DETECTR: CRISPR-Cas Systems as Potential Rapid Diagnostic Tools for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Cancer-Associated Mutations</strong>" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0080.v1
Abstract
Sensitive and precise nucleic acid detection is critical for clinical diagnostics and biotechnological advancements. Diagnostic in infectious disease field is very unique from diagnosing any other disease, that is time is of the essence; in outbreaks people die even with each passing hour in some cases, if the correct diagnosis wasn't make; for example Zika in particularly is a very challenging virus to diagnose, because it's in very few numbers of copies in the infected person, so it need high sensitive diagnostic approach to spot it, In particular, the advanced tools SHERLOCKv2 and DETECTR, give almost an immediate detection of attomolar amounts of pathogenic nucleic acids with specificity similar to that of PCR but with slight technical settings and that will guide the correct intervention for the patient. SHERLOCKv2 and DETECTR technologies are game changers for our ability to identify infectious disease and rapid detection of tumor DNA or cancer-related viruses with ultra-sensitive tests that don’t require a lot of complicated processing to go through. In this paper, we will review cutting-edge infectious disease diagnosis by CRISPR-Cas systems.
Biology and Life Sciences, Biology and Biotechnology
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